The Yegiora Files

The Foreign Policy Review Report (FPRR) written by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in June 2017 listed international trends that are either political in nature or concerns our security. These significant developments have influenced the behavior of states and non-state actors in the international system in the past 40 years. The list includes: the collapse of the Soviet Union and emergence of freshly-independent countries; the economic reforms in the 1990s, and the global financial crisis of 2007-9; enlargement of the EU, followed by preparations for the UK's withdrawal (Brexit) following the June 2016 referendum; the global spread of terrorist threats; what is widely to be a new Asian Century shaped by China, India, and increasingly determined by the rise of these economies as well as the role played by ASEAN; instability and conflicts in the Middle East, including the flight of refugees; threats to resort to the use of nucl